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To Iowa Farmers An Agril Fair Address
A.S.Welch.
A fair in America,
and a fair in Europe, are very
different things. In Europe, the
fair, as all the world knows,
is a mere temporary market,
opened at stated intervals, in
some privileged city or town,
for the purpose of traffic or sale.
And in these centres of intermit-
tent trade, gravitate, as the day
of its opening approaches, all
the wares of the merchant, the
inventions of the mechanic,
and the portable products of
the farm. And every commodity
of the untold stores which gather

Box 2, Folder 11: A speech given by Welch at an agricultural fair. He discusses his opinion that animal competitions should be judged by the value of the animal to the world and not the price of the animal to the farmer. He argues that fairs should focus less on the largest animals and vegetables but on the quality of the product.

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To Iowa Farmers An Agril Fair Address
A.S.Welch.
A fair in America,
and a fair in Europe, are very
different things. In Europe, the
fair, as all the world knows,
is a mere temporary market,
opened at stated intervals, in
some privileged city or town,
for the purpose of traffic or sale.
And in these centres of intermit-
tent trade, gravitate, as the day
of its opening approaches, all
the wares of the merchant, the
inventions of the mechanic,
and the portable products of
the farm. And every commodity
of the untold stores which gather